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Francisko de Moraes Rezende
Education
MSc, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jyväskylä, Finland
University of Jyväskylä
2019 - 2016
- Thesis: “Variable light conditions affect warning signal efficacy in an aposematic polymorphic moth”
- Grade: 4/5.
- My degree was graded as “Excellent”, the highest grade awarded to degrees at JYU
- Supervised by Phd Ossi Nokelainen and Prof. Johanna Mappes
BSc, Biological Sciences
Viçosa, Brazil
Federal University of Viçosa
2016 - 2009
- Monograph: “What drives changes in composition of ant assemblages along a vertical gradient?”
- Supervised by Profs. Fernando Augusto Schmidt and José Henrique Schoreder
Visiting student
Helsinki, Finland
University of Helsinki
2014 - 2013
- Attended Master’s level courses and did an internship at the research group “Social Evolution in Ants”
Research Experience
Being part of diverse research groups was a privilege. Cooperation is invaluable when it comes to doingquality high science.
Master’s thesis development
Evolution of predator-prey interactions group
University of Jyväskylä
2019 - 2017
- I did my thesis work in Professor Johanna Mappes’s group. I investigated the effects of different light conditions affected the predation pressure suffered by Actia plantaginis, an aposematic species that is also color polymorphic. I attended the group’s weekly meetings during which we discussed papers, and presented research projects.
Research apprentice
Laboratório de Ecologia de Comunidades
Federal University of Viçosa
2016 - 2011
- I was part of different ant community ecology and biodiversity research projects, and conducted the project that resulted in my bachelor’s monograph. I had experience with sampling and identifying ants, data analysis and scientific writing, among other activities related to the research group.
Research apprentice
Social Evolution in Ants
University of Helsinki
2014 - 2013
- I worked as research apprentice in the group “Social Evolution in Ants” during my exchange year at University of Helsinki. I was part of projects related to ecology, evolution, behaviour, and population biology of Formica and Myrmica ants. I had experience with sampling and sorting ant colonies, setting-up and maintaining experimental colonies in the lab and recording results from lab experiments. I also helped with mark/recapture sampling and survival assays using ants.
Publications, Posters, and Talks
The presenter’s name is italicized for posters and talks
Beyond beta: diversity partitioning reveals different underlying patterns in ant assemblages along two small scale gradients in a Brazilian Neotropical forest
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
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2019
- Paper based on the results of my Bsc monography
Do different light conditions influence warning signal efficacy in the color polymorphic wood tiger moth males?
Talk
5TH Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting, Paris, France.
2018
- DE MORAES REZENDE, F. ; MAPPES, J. ; NOKELAINEN, O.
What drives changes in composition of ant assemblages along a vertical gradient?
Talk
XXII Simpósio de Mirmecologia: An International Ant Meeting, Ilhéus, Brasil
2015
- REZENDE, F. M. ; JESUS, R. S. ; RIBAS, C. R., SCHOEREDER, J. H.
- This talk won the prize for best oral presentation in its category
Os últimos serão os primeiros? Distribuição de abortos no fruto de Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Witt
Talk
EcoEncontros, USP
2015
- I presented the talk “Os últimos serão os primeiros? Distribuição de abortos no fruto de Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Witt” as part of the activities of EcoEncontros—a weekly meeting organized by graduate students from Universidade de São Paulo’s (USP) Graduate Program in Ecology. This talk was about the project developed by my group during the “2a EcoEscola: Escola de Ecologia da USP”. My group investigated a possible selective abortion pattern in L. leucocephala’s pods and its relationship to post copulatory cryptic female choice. Our hypothesis was that we would find significantly more abortions on the basal end of the pods. We did not find any clear abortion pattern in the pods.
Defense behavior of the Blood-red ant Formica sanguinea Latreille, 1789
Poster
XXII Simpósio de Mirmecologia: An International Ant Meeting, Ilhéus, Brasil
2015
- DE MORAES REZENDE, F.
News on the enigmatic ant genus Anillidris (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae: Leptomyrmecini)
Article
Myrmecological News, volume 19, pages 25-30
2014
- SCHMIDT, F. A. ; FEITOSA, R. M. ; DE MORAES REZENDE, F. ; SILVA DE JESUS, R.
- Available from here
Insights on the behaviour of the neotropical termitophilous ant Centromyrmex pr. brachycola
Poster
23rd Spring Symposium, Helsinki, Finland
2014
- CHAUL, J. C. M; REZENDE, F. M.
Resource availability and aggressive behavior among ants: a proxy for inter-specific competition role on ant community structure.
Poster
XXI Simpósio de Mirmecologia, Fortaleza, Brazil
2013
- SCHMIDT, F. A. ; JESUS, R. S. ; REZENDE, F. M. ; SOLAR, R. R. C. ; RIBAS, C. R. ; SCHOEREDER, J. H.
Azteca-Cecropia interaction: Ants’ presence could influence the production of Müllerian bodies in Cecropia glaziovii sneth?
Poster
50th Anniversary Meeting: Association for tropical biology and conservation, San José, Costa Rica
2013
- OLIVEIRA, K. N. ; JESUS, R. S. ; SOUZA, A. A. B. ; REZENDE, F. M. ; ESPÍRITO-SANTO, M. M. ; CAMPOS, R. I.
Processo de apodrecimento de troncos caídos no solo e a diversidade de formigas
Poster
XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia, Curitiba, Brasil
2012
- CHAUL, J. C. M. ; REZENDE, F. M.
- We investigated how the richness of the ant communities present in fallen logs was influenced by how rot these logs were. Our hypothesis was that we would find more ant species when the logs were at a moderate state of decay. We did not find a significant relationship between the studied variables
Coding
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- I can analyze data using LMs, GLMs, GLMMs and conduct survival analyses. I can produce bar plots, line graphs, scatter plots, and histograms using R’s base graphics device and ggplot2. Finally, I know enough programming in R to clean and organize/sort data. I also know enough R to look for help online and implement it on my own provided that I have some time to work on it.
LaTeX
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- I can produce my own simple documents, including presentations and I know enough to implement different templates when necessary
Python
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- I can use libraries such as Pandas,Matplotlib and Seaborn to do basic data manipulation and plotting
Bash
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- I can write scripts to manipulate data and automate tasks
Teaching Experience
I love being involved in education. I believe that teaching brings a whole new level of understanding to who teaches and empowers the students.
Ecology tutor
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Federal University of Viçosa
2013 - 2012
- Worked as a tutor in the course “BIO 131 — Ecologia Básica” (Basic Ecology) for three semesters. My duties consisted of assisting the students during the practical lessons, evaluating the reports made by the students and conducting a weekly meeting to help the students with any content-related doubts. I also helped the professors during the I, II & III Mostra de trabalhos de ecologia básica. These were mini symposia in which the students presented projects conducted during the course using the scientific method. My duties were to supervise and evaluate some of these projects.
- I received a scholarship as a compensation for my work in this position
- Undergraduate level class
Evolution tutor
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Federal University of Viçosa
2012
- Worked as tutor in the course “BIO 340 — Evolução Orgânica” (Organic Evolution) for one semester. My duties were to assist the students within and without class hours, to evaluate the students’ reports and extra tasks, to help the students prepare their seminars and to elaborate questions during the presentation of said seminars.
- This was a voluntary position (i.e., I was not paid)
- Undergraduate level class
Organizing comittee
“Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica” events were mini symposia in which Basic Ecology students were supposed to present the results of the small research projects that they conducted during the semester
“I Simpósio de Ecologia e Evolução” was an ecology and evolution symposium
III Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica
Viçosa, Brazil
Federal University of Viçosa
2013
II Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica
Viçosa, Brazil
Federal University of Viçosa
2013
I Mostra de Trabalhos de Ecologia Básica
Viçosa, Brazil
Federal University of Viçosa
2012
I Simpósio de Ecologia e Evolução
Viçosa, Brazil
Federal University of Viçosa
2012
Participation in scientific events
5TH Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting
Paris, France
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2018
XXII Simpósio de Mirmecologia: An International Ant Meeting
Ilhéus, Brazil
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2015
I Simpósio de Ecologia e Evolução, Viçosa, Brazil
Viçosa, Brazil
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2012
XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Entomologia,
Curitiba, Brazil
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2012
III Simpósio de Entomologia
Viçosa, Brazil
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2011
XX Simpósio de Mirmecologia — I Encuentro de Mirmecologia de Las Americas
Petrópolis, Brazil
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2011
Specialization courses
Computational and data literacy
London, UK
Natural History Museum
2018
- Duration: June 4 – June 8
- Course on reproducible data analysis and management, including data wrangling, Git and Github, R Markdown, and the basics of data analysis and visualisation using R.
International summer school on lake ecology and management,
Cēsis, Latvia
Institute for Environmental Solutions
2017
- Duration: August 24 – September 2
- This summer school focused on lake ecology and management in the 21st century, new technologies for lake research and sustainable management developed in cooperation with stakeholders
2a EcoEscola: Escola de Ecologia da USP
São Paulo, Brazil
University of São Paulo
2015
- Duration: July 27 – August 14 (92 hours altogether)
- A three-week long course on ecology organized by the students of USP’s Graduate Program in Ecology. It consisted of two modules. The first module happened from July 27 to July 31 and it consisted of three mini-symposia (one about ecology applied to conservation, one about ecology & evolution and one about ecological interactions). The second module happened from August 3 to August 14. It consisted of lectures about the scientific method, data analysis and presentation, among other topics. We also developed, executed and presented a project on ecology. For more information on this course please write ecoescola@ib.usp.br
III Formigas do Brasil
Uberlândia, Brazil
Federal University of Uberlândia
2014
- Duration: September 7 – September 14 (56 hours altogether)
- A course on Brazilian mirmecology. It included lectures about ecology, taxonomy, phylogeny, ant identification and sampling. Additionally, we had a field trip to the Cerrado (a Brazilian biome similar to the African Savannas) to apply some of the sampling techniques that we learned during the course.
Taxonomy, Identification and Ecology of European Ants
Copenhagen, Denmark
University of Copenhagen
2014
- Duration: August 24 – August 29 (4 ECTS)
- Similar to “III Formigas do Brasil” but focusing on European ants. Besides the previously described topics, this course dealt with chemical ecology and molecular methods. We also went on a field trip to learn/apply sampling techniques.
XI Curso de Verão em Entomologia
Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
University of São Paulo — Ribeirão Preto campus
2013
- January 28 – February 8 (90 hours altogether)
- An entomology summer school. We learned the basics about ecology, evolution, phylogeny, biogeography and behavior of several different Insecta groups. We also learned several sampling techniques used to samples insects and applied them on a short field trip.